CVE-2018-5115Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded foreground page. Although the prompt contains the real domain making the request, this can result in user confusion about the originating site of the authentication request and may cause users to mistakenly send private credential information to a third party site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

debiandebian/firefox< firefox 58.0-1 (sid)
CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified58
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 58.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+4
NVDmozilla/firefox57.0.4

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-39x9-phxc-qvqw: If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded fore2022-05-14
OSV
firefox regressions2018-02-12
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2018-01-24
OSV
CVE-2018-5115: If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded fore2018-01-23

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox regressions2018-02-12
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2018-01-24
Debian
CVE-2018-5115: firefox - If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request fr...2018